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Forward Deployed Engineer

85k – 165kNew York, NYOnsite1+ YOE
Summary

Forward Deployed Engineer building custom AI, ML, and quantitative applications for private fund customers. Requires 1-4 years experience, strong Python/SQL, and customer-facing delivery skills.

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Lead scoped forward-deployed engagements from discovery through deployment and iteration
  • Design and build custom applications, workflows, and decision-support tools for Maybern customers
  • Work across AI, machine learning, forecasting, scenario modeling, optimization, and workflow automation
  • Partner directly with customer stakeholders to refine requirements and drive adoption
  • Build reliable evaluation, validation, and monitoring layers for AI and quantitative systems
  • Create reusable abstractions, internal libraries, and common patterns from customer-specific work
  • Mentor Associate Forward Deployed Engineers on delivery and problem structuring

Who You Are

  • Builder. You ship reliable systems end-to-end and decide well between speed and rigor.
  • Customer-Oriented. You take ambiguous requirements and turn them into structured technical plans and trust with stakeholders.
  • Quantitatively Strong. You apply solid quant reasoning to real-world problems and know where ML / LLMs help vs. don't.
  • Partner. You collaborate well across product, engineering, and customer teams and mentor junior teammates with care.
  • Curious. You're excited by hard problems at the intersection of AI, quantitative methods, and customer impact.

Requirements

  • 1–4 years of experience in software engineering, ML engineering, data engineering, quantitative analytics, or a similarly rigorous technical role
  • Strong Python and SQL, plus comfort with APIs, backend systems, and data pipelines
  • Proven ability to design, build, and ship reliable systems
  • Strong quantitative reasoning applied to real-world problems
  • Hands-on experience with machine learning, LLM workflows, model-based automation, or analytical applications
  • Ability to work directly with customers and turn ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans
  • Strong communication and sound engineering judgment
  • Experience with forecasting, optimization, simulation, or scenario-modeling systems

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience building evaluation frameworks, control layers, or human-in-the-loop AI workflows
  • Familiarity with symbolic systems, rules engines, DSLs, or formal specification
  • Prior forward-deployed, solutions, or customer-embedded engineering experience
  • Exposure to capital markets, enterprise finance, or other complex operational domains

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + equity package
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits (Maybern covers 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums)
  • HSA & FSA plans
  • Paid parental leave
  • Flexible schedule
  • Flexible PTO / sick leave
  • WFH as needed
  • 401k
Skills
PythonSQLAPIsBackend SystemsData PipelinesMachine LearningLLM WorkflowsForecastingOptimizationScenario Modeling
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